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Wallah! It's the first time I've seen voilà written this way. But when I think about it, it seems like a really obvious thing to do so I wonder how common it is.
Is it a "thing" that I've just missed before now?

@73kittycat73 a thin slice of cake, or anything else, is a sliver. Slithering is the way snakes move.

@OpalBerry

Reminds me of WW1 soldiers calling Ypres "Wipers" I love popcorn kettle black

As it was unlikely that the WW1 soldiers would have learned a foreign language I can understand Wipers!

@Benjispruce3

Slither is a movement that a snake makes. Sliver is a thin slice. It’s a common mistake.

Thank you.

[quote RedlightGreenlight]@PattyPan Venetian blinds

www.instagram.com/p/CP3rDlYL99H/

It looks like someone pointe it out and she changed the first one, but not the second.[/quote]
And why is she using her clothes to clean with??

[quote Bloodybridget]@73kittycat73 a thin slice of cake, or anything else, is a sliver. Slithering is the way snakes move.[/quote]
Thank you also.

It's that pesky non-rhotic 'r'. You'd never see someone with a Scottish accent, for example, making that sort of mistake (but probably other mistakes!)

Completely agree, "draw" and "drawer" sounds totally different to my ear.

A common Scottish one though is writing "definately" which often miscorrects to defiantly.

In Scotland, many people pronounce the word "definitely" as deffin-ATE-ly with the emphasis on the "ate". So if you pronounce it definATEly, you think there's definately an A in there....

Wipers was a joke though?

I can't figure out bineshure blinds. Bennysure blinds, I'd understand.

It’s sliver/slither confusion, 73. A sliver is a tiny slice … slither is what a snake does

It’s a really common one, I think. At least, I’ve heard two separate Repair Shop experts use it on different episodes in the context of their jobs, so anyone else doing it is in reasonably good company

Oops, sorry to be the millionth person to cross-post about slither

@Catlover77 perhaps she is confused because her clothes look like dusters.

I was going to say non shallot I couldn’t work out what they meant lol

@RaspberryCoulis

It's that pesky non-rhotic 'r'. You'd never see someone with a Scottish accent, for example, making that sort of mistake (but probably other mistakes!)

Completely agree, "draw" and "drawer" sounds totally different to my ear.

A common Scottish one though is writing "definately" which often miscorrects to defiantly.

In Scotland, many people pronounce the word "definitely" as deffin-ATE-ly with the emphasis on the "ate". So if you pronounce it definATEly, you think there's definately an A in there....

It drives me MENTAL: the pronunciation and the spelling. My sister is the worst offender.

Youse/yous/ you's completely rips my knitting too!

A colleague used to say ‘As dead as a dormouse.’

@bloodybridget

Well, I think that will surprise a lot of Portugese people as well as the compilers of the Online Etymology Dictionary.

Expresso (n)

Variant of espresso.

www.etymonline.com/word/expresso#etymonline_v_32882

Youse/yous/ you's completely rips my knitting too!

Don't forget 'use' - I mean WTF 😬

I hate yous with a passion - all versions

The funniest ones are when it’s clearly not that the person actually struggles with literacy, but just that they’ve misheard something and then subconsciously constructed a justification for it. Proper eggcorns rather than spelling struggles

MIL is a top offender with ‘definately’ so we now believe she is ‘H’ from Line of Duty.

It's all very well saying it's snobby to expect people to be able to use proper English, but if you're blind or partially sighted then it really doesn't help when your screen reader has to try and decipher what was meant.

Ano for I know

@VeniVidiWeeWee so it's a Portuguese word?
Calling it a variant, in English, is like saying effect is a variant of affect.

It has to be correct for meaning to be understood. I’d rather be told so I can learn for future use. A family member can’t use punctuation properly and often uses the wrong homophone so I end up rereading his texts several times to make sense of it all.

@Ostara212

What's an assaulted soft toy?

Assorted. I think this was probably an predictive text that wasn't checked before posting.

When people are 'on root' somewhere

@Benjispruce3

A colleague used to say ‘As dead as a dormouse.’

Are you sure he/she didn't mean 'as a doormouse', as I've often seen it written?

My husband always says he puts me on a pedal stool